CGI-GALORE, LIARS, TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES AND MORE.
SAVAGE DOG FILMS '07 UPDATE:
"Savage Dog Films
has over the past few years had an interesting list of horror
films coming out, some of which are still stranded in
production hell - here comes the updates on all things Savage
Dog-esque"
San Diego, CA - June
7, 2007. With a newly updated website layout and the new
action film 'Hybrid' having been green-lit, it's time to shed
some light on the other productions that have yet to see
daylight. What follows is an in-depth film-by-film update on
everything that Savage Dog Films has yet to put out. Lennie
Overgaard of Savage Dog Productions and Savage Dog Digitals
explains:
MANIA:
Vanessa Mason, the
co-writer of Rip Cage, helmed this amazing little flick called
Mania. Shot in 2005 in the city of Windsor, Canada it'd be
safe to say that it has been shelved for a little too long.
And it's for no other reason than an overwhelming amount of
hardware failures in our editing system. "Back first when I
still had the time to edit Mania, I actually had to cut the
film from scratch three times" explains Lennie Overgaard. He
continues, "We eventually replaced the entire system, but when
that happened, I had to move on to direct Seraphim and I had
to pass on the editor's job to Vanessa Mason herself, who I
think will be doing a wonderful job." Mania is still set for a
direct-to-video release, though no release date has been
planned as of yet.
SERAPHIM:
Back when Seraphim
was being announced it spawned massive interest in Savage Dog
Films, not seen since Rip Cage was announced as the film would
tell the story of the last 4 days before Armageddon, following
4 teenagers trapped in a war between angels and demons. The
film was shot almost a year ago in remote southern Sweden and
it was shot over a mind-boggling eight days only. "The matter
of shooting it in just eight days was an experiment of ours
and let me tell you that everybody we hired laughed their
asses off when we told them that they'd only be shooting for a
mere 8 days. Pre-production was crucial on this and as a
matter of fact we managed to get all the footage we needed in
just those 8 days. That was also one of the reasons as to why
we had two directors on this one as neither of us got very
much sleep that week." The first work-in-progress trailer that
was released got a very mixed reception - the world was
divided on this one. "That infamous teaser trailer was not in
my best interest to release. I felt that it was important to
show people some of the action, but at the time we released
it, we actually wanted to go for a October 13 release and that
proved to be entirely impossible. The CGI color correction is
finally falling into place these days and when we release the
final trailer on July 1st I guarantee a kick-ass ride. The
film is out on DVD Friday the 13th - this
July."
RIP CAGE
:
"We've had our share
of ups and downs on this one. With an estimated budget of $2.5
million, it's easy to find people to work on it. And it has
been, but the people we've had to work on this one have been
less than ideal. People who regurly check out the Rip Cage
IMDb page will see that things come and go as often as we
change our underwear. People will notice that Rip Cage, at
some point, had a co-director called Robin Haworth. Robin
wasted 18 months of my time and he never ever did anything. It
was always the plan that Savage Dog Films would produce 50%
and another someone would produce the remaining 50%. For 18
months, Robin didn't even produce a single frame worth of
footage. He is NOT the great producer he pretends to be. Trust
me, the guy even wanted to use green bed-sheets for the green
screen sequences. Yikes! I'd recommend everybody who reads
this, to keep their eyes open for this guy. All he will do, is
waste your very valuable time and money. Once Seraphim is done
and released I'll take matters into my own hands and shoot the
last part of the film and get it out there. If everything
turns out as expected, the film should be done early 2008.
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